Design Secrets: Furniture

says Michele De Lucchi. “This is part of a layout process where

you design the room in a totally unexpected way.”

Unlike traditional shelving units that are invariably shoved up

against a wall, Layout shelves are to be pulled out, into the room,

where they become sculptural pieces that help define space. “The

first idea was not to do a cupboard using a corner or wall of the

room space, but to do a cupboard independent of the walls,”

says De Lucchi. “And I thought, instead of adding a wall, it would

be better to add a curtain on the wall. A curtain is not a flat sur-

face, but it is softer, and its surface is plastic. The project came

out of combining ...